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| Name: | nancy studebaker |
| E-mail address: | studehakers@cox.net |
| Comments: | Heart-lifting prose is that of Gladys Taber. |
| Name: | Debbie |
| E-mail address: | mommagroom1@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I was introduced to Gladys Tabor by my grandmother years ago. I loved reading her books and always wished I lived in that farmhouse in Connecticut. I am so glad I found your site. |
| Name: | dale cipollini |
| E-mail address: | dalenoel62@aol.com |
| Comments: | Just love Gladys Tabers books. I grew up in Newtown Conn town nst to Southbury in the house myparents bought from Gladys Taber friends Miss Blinn and Miss cuthburt s been so onderful tored and collect her books especially when my house was mentioned in one of her books. |
| Name: | Cheri Dwinnell |
| E-mail address: | cherild@maine.rr.com |
| Comments: | Nothing could ever be better than Gladys Taber's writings. I squeal with delight whenever I find one of her books! Love, love, love her! |
| Name: | Judy Murrah |
| E-mail address: | judym@quilts.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://judymurrah.wordpress.com |
| Comments: | Just read about Gladys Taber in a Susan Branch blog and now want to know more. What's the best way to go about getting copies of any of her writings? Thank you. Judy |
| Name: | Bobbie Ann Picard |
| E-mail address: | btpicard212@newwavecomm.net |
| Comments: | I have loved Gladys Taber for many years and happy to learn there is a quarterly newsletter. In addition, I am happy I have recently been introduced through facebook, to Susan Branch. I love her blog and will be collecting her work as well. I think of both of these women, as a little bit of comfort and joy in a much too busy world. Thank you!!! |
| Name: | debbie tunnell |
| E-mail address: | recipeas4u@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://recipeas4u.blogspot.com |
| Comments: | So happy to have found this site quite by accident. My mother also introduced me to Gladys and collected all of her books. While she never met Gladys, we did have tea at her house in 1994. Mother knew every nook and cranny from descriptions in Gladys Tabor's books. Wonderful memory. |
| Name: | Christian |
| E-mail address: | christian@yahoo.ca |
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| Name: | Barbara Belcher |
| E-mail address: | irishlass124@gmail.com |
| Comments: | I would love to receive your newsletter and pictures of your house. I can not afford the $20.00 per year. I love your house and hope to have one like it before I die. I love your quotes and books, I will see if I can get a few from the library. You are very creative and that is why I love you and Susan Branch! Thanks for everything. Barbara |
| Name: | Lorna Schreck |
| E-mail address: | lschreck50@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I feel as if I've come home to a family I didn't even know I had. As I viewed the comments, my heart was hugged as my eyes flooded with tears of joy. There really are kindred spirits who understand immediately what I feel about Glayds's books and columns. As I journey into my 60's I am comforted to know you are out there and now your are in my heart! |
| Name: | connie jo post |
| E-mail address: | conniejopost@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | So glad to have found this web site..I love gladys Taber's writings and my mom introduced me to her books.. |
| Name: | Joleva |
| E-mail address: | joleva@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.ebloggy.com/joleva |
| Comments: | I have been a great fan of Susan Branch for years. I love her works and own some of her products as well :D I was Introduced to Gladys Taber through her Willard Newsletter. I am looking forward to getting to know Gladys work. Thanks Susan for the introduction :) |
| Name: | Jeannie |
| E-mail address: | Jswanlake12@aol.com |
| Comments: | i had just ordered "Stillmeadow Calendar' from Amazon, when i realized I had first read Gladys Taber's column in The Family Circle Magazine in 1963 or 1964. My mother would bring the magazine home from her shopping expeditions and the Gladys Taber column was the first one we would turn to. Well, that's over 48 years I have been reading her books about Stillmeadow, Stillcove and of course all her wonderful dogs and cats. Now that my brother and sister in law have moved to Connecticut, a trip to Stillmeadow is on our calendar. |
| Name: | Rhoda Tuckey |
| E-mail address: | rtuckey54321@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Dear Ladies: Could someone please tell me the favorite three Gladys Taber books that are out there? I do love the Lord and gardening, sewing, homemaking and hand making things. I don't have any pets though, but three favorite books otherwise would be a good start for me. I love to read and could use a good elder woman mentor. It sounds as though Gladys' work and influence is still very much alive. Please respond. Thank you. Sincerely, Rhoda Tuckey |
| Name: | Linda |
| E-mail address: | lbleeke@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I just found this from Susan Branch's newsletter, however many of the links from the homepage do not work and I cannot find how to sign up and pay for the mailed newsletter. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance. She sounds like a kindred spirit. |
| Name: | Susan |
| E-mail address: | suzq91955@aol.com |
| Comments: | I discovered Gladys Taber book when my mom passed away in August of 2010. I have never read anything much except my bible. I loved "Reveries at Stillmeadow" which I found at my moms house. I am now trying to order her books when I can. I would like to see a description of some of hers books before I order them. Does anyone know of a site where I can see what each book is about. Thanks for this site. |
| Name: | Lee |
| E-mail address: | lee@telusplanet.net |
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| Name: | Debra Tincher-Graves |
| E-mail address: | dtincher@tds.net |
| Comments: | I want to sign up for Gadys Tabers newsletter, becuase along with Susan Branch I to love everything about homemaking, gardening, cooking the lieasure arts and God. God bless people like yourselves who promote these good works for the women of God deb |
| Name: | Carolyn |
| E-mail address: | b.nunn@insightbb.com |
| Comments: | I have also been introduced to Gladys Taber by Susan Branch. She sounds like a very interesting lady. She may be a close "Gene Stratton Porter" from Indiana. I will be looking for a Gladys Taber book. |
| Name: | Julie MIller |
| E-mail address: | mochajam@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | I read about Gladys from my Willard newsletter written by Susan Branch. If she is a fan of Gladys I thought I would look into it:) |
| Name: | Ethel Menhart |
| E-mail address: | ethel111@verizon.net |
| Comments: | Hi, I learned about Gladys Taber from Susan Ban Breathnach's site......and I bought a few of her out of print books, I also love her, and was thoroughly entranced and enthralled with her life and how she lived it, etc. |
| Name: | Liza-Ann Tucker |
| E-mail address: | ltucker@mun.ca |
| Comments: | I can't find alot of info about each of Gladys Taber's books. Susan Branch has set me on this search. I love all things Country but I'm not interested in tha Cat/ Dog books. Can you recommend the top 3 Gladys Taber books and why. Thanks. Liza-Ann |
| Name: | connie J Post |
| E-mail address: | conniejopost@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I first learned about Gladys Tabor from my mom. I inherited "Country Chronicle" from mom and have loved Gladys ever since. I look for her books and collect them.I love her and her writings always take me to a peaceful place. |
| Name: | Janet Taber |
| E-mail address: | janettaber@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Thanks to Susan Branch for directing us to this site and for reminding us, once again, of the treasure that was Gladys Taber. I would love to believe that we would have been kindred spirits (as well as name-sharers) had we ever met. I do feel as if I know her and will go, just now, to reacquaint myself through the pages of Stillmeadow. |
| Name: | Brenda Meyer |
| Homepage URL: | http://bunniej.xanga.com |
| Comments: | I love Gladys Taber's books so much. They are a quiet retreat from this crazy world. My mother read them and now my sister and I read them. I read them over and over. She was a wonderful lady. |
| Name: | Denise |
| Comments: | Gladys Taber's books are a quiet, restful,happy place to go to escape the worries and cares of this troubled world. I absolutely love them. |
| Name: | Lynn Ellington |
| E-mail address: | linpinpin@buckeye-express.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.vintagelaceandlavender.com |
| Comments: | Susan Branch does it again! Educating me about another one of her interests, which usually ends up being something I adore as well. Can't wait to find one of Gladys Taber's books and look forward to pouring over it with a cup of tea. I grew up in New England, now in Ohio, and always enjoy reading about someone's experiences in that wonderful area. |
| Name: | Sheryl Kirk |
| E-mail address: | in_the_tall_pines@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Where have I been? I just read of Gladys' Stillmeadow books today in Susan Branch's Willard letter. I think I will be another fan looking for her books and articles. Thank you for sharing...y'all. |
| Name: | Eugenie Thomas |
| E-mail address: | WolfWillow7@Hotmail.ca |
| Comments: | I love to go back to Still Meadow in my wide-awake dreams. I think of the Irish and Jill. Good Luck..... |
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| Name: | Shelley Rogers |
| E-mail address: | stillmeadow@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | This website is only a shadow of what it used to be due to the fact that the person who created it passed away. Susan Stanley was a loving, caring person and she dearly admired Gladys Taber. She was my very good friend. I'm in the process of building another website dedicated to Gladys Taber. Please watch for more information. If you would like to be emailed information about the new site, please contact me at stillmeadow@yahoo.com |
| Name: | Sandy Olivencia |
| E-mail address: | forgetful7522@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I remember my mom reading Gladys Taber's books when I was a child and talking about them. I bought her Stillmeadow Cookbook when a was a young woman, but it was lost with other books when I moved in 1979. Now I collect her books and read them often, especially when I want to feel more content and more peaceful. One thing, though--her description of her first love, Jan, who went to war and eventually broke her heart hurts me so much! Every September she seems to write something about that. When she describes her courtship with Frank, the man she married and later divorced, she never says anything about loving him. I always wonder what happened to "Jan"--whether she saw him around the town where they lived, or heard about him through the years. Also, I could feel her pain acutely when reading Another Path, about Jill's death, maybe because I was widowed when I was 43. Anyway, I love the way she faces life and her little quirks and her love for humankind and animals. I enjoy everything about the books--the illustrations and pictures, too. Does anyone know how to get in touch with Anne Colby, her granddaughter who at one time, at least, was at Stillmeadow? Can one write to someone who takes care of the place to get information about it? |
| Name: | Sue Bendlin |
| E-mail address: | rsbendlin@evertek.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://m.www.yahoo.com |
| Comments: | ....sorry about the boo boo in my just posted comments. "Diary of Domesticity" appeared in LADIES HOME JOURNAL as most of you already know. |
| Name: | Sue Bendlin |
| E-mail address: | rsbendlin@evertek.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://m.www.yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I have been in love with Gladys Taber since I was a preteen and discovered her thru my grandmother, who had several of her books. Later I discovered "Butternut Wisdom" and "Diary of Domesticity" in FAMILY CIRCLE and Just discovered this site by typing in Gladys Taber and, oh my, the sites that popped up. I have all but 3 of her books and since those three are listed for hundreds of dollars I doubt I'll ever own them. Meanwhile, I reread her books each winter and enjoy them again as much as when I first read them. I have many duplicates I have picked up thru the years. There will never be anyone like this wonderful woman and I hope the group, FRIENDS OF GLADYS TABER, continues to grow. |
| Name: | Martha Avery |
| E-mail address: | mea_3@netzero.net |
| Comments: | Along with many, many others, I discovered Mrs. Tabor through a magazine article. Now I have a great collection of her books. Some I purchased through bookstores dealing in out-of-print books. Once in a while I will read, again, one of her books as I am doing now. It is titled, "Still Cove Journal"; the last one she wrote, I believe. I have also enjoyed reading books authored by two of her friends, Faith Baldwin and Hal Borland. |
| Name: | Lucille Primaldi |
| E-mail address: | ceal88@verizon.net |
| Comments: | I first discovered Gladys Taber while subbing for a secretary back in 1963. I picked up a magazine and found a slim, page-long column called "Butternut Wisdom" -- and the rest is history!!!! I absolutely LOVE Glady's Stillmeadow books. Whenever I read a chapter or two I feel as though I've taken a vacation back to simpler times. No hurrying here and there. There's time to breathe!!!!! Thanks for the wonderful website. I'll visit often. |
| Name: | Cheryl Ashley |
| E-mail address: | csmithwcpl@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | How nice to know there's a website dedicated to Gladys. Her books are difficult to find now (8/2009) but I'll keep trying. Thankfully, libraries still have some copies. But these eventually wear out, and the books can't be replaced. Can anyone recommend a biography of Mrs. Taber? Thanks, Cheryl Ashley |
| Name: | Ginger |
| E-mail address: | punkin88@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | Gladys Taber connects me to my late mother, whose favorite author was Mrs. Taber. Every time I read her books, I feel the presence of those who have gone before me. |
| Name: | Janet Marilyn Stitt |
| E-mail address: | churchmouse45101@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | What a delightful time I've had, looking through your wonderful site! It's lovely to know there are other Stillmeadow readers out there; was there ever another writer like Gladys Taber? Thank you for keeping her memory alive, and God bless you. |
| Name: | patty olczak |
| E-mail address: | pattyolc@aol.com |
| Comments: | I love every book she wrote.. I have my collection and I went out immediately and got 2 Abyssinians after reading about "Amber".. they passed and I have 2 more.. what a blessing! |
| Name: | Marilyn Atchison |
| E-mail address: | atchisonmarilyn@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Just found this site while looking for my old favourite Stillmeadow site (which I hadn't received mail from for quite some time), closed I guess. I am a long time reader of Glady's wisdom and gentle humour. If anyone knows where all the sites have gone, or just wants to chat about Glady's, Jill and the dogs and Amber, please feel free to write. Thanks, Marilyn Victoria, B.C. |
| Name: | pamela mcdonald |
| E-mail address: | pamelamcdonald2@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://librasun@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | hello again, reading thr fans comnents below....i want to address a question by FAYE she asjs if Gladys daughter connie was cicely......in stillmedow seasons she refers to her as cicely, i wonder if this is a pet/nickname or possibly a middle name used here......so many books! so many questions!..and why are so many of the Gladys Taber sites " deadended?" i was heartbroken to find they didnt give the much sought after information..could someone tell me if there is a plan in action to continue this fine tribute site?...i would love to be a part of this, yours truly in literature, Pamela Mc Donald |
| Name: | Pamela Mc Donald |
| E-mail address: | pamelamcdonald2@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://librasun@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I read my first book, " stillmedow and sugarbridge" during the summer of 1982, awaiting my 4th child, Gladys kept me company with stories of home....i had collected 30 of the 50 books, that painfully were stolen in 2001, i am rebuilding my collection, but a more beautiful soul i have never found, than in the works of GLADYS TABER god bless all the family, and of course " stillmedow" pamela mc donald |
| Name: | Mary Lou Cassotto |
| E-mail address: | mlcassotto@aol.com |
| Comments: | Thank you for all of your wonderful work this weekend at the Wellesley Reunion. Lots of fun. Mary Lou Cassotto Glastonbury, Conn. |
| Name: | Mercedes Arneson Pary |
| E-mail address: | mcpary@eot.com |
| Comments: | I have admired Gladys Taber's Stillmeadow writings since I was a young girl.My mother was an avid reader of Gladys' writings and I recently found a worn and torn "Stillmeadow" book of Gladys' with clippings of her writings cut out of magazines and folded neatly in the book. My mother was a writer in a less notable way but did publish some of her poems. As I read about Gladys' way of life, I find it parallel to my mother's, namely Violet Alice Evans Arneson now deceased. I enjoy both author's writings. |
| Name: | Mary S. Orrell |
| E-mail address: | msorrell@triad.rr.com |
| Comments: | Think what a wonderful life if everyone was as interesting and could handle things the way Gladys Tabor did. When you finish reading one of her books you just cannot wait to find another one. Her books have always been such an inspiration to me. |
| Name: | Nancy Winton |
| E-mail address: | cnwinton@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | I have loved Gladys Taber since I first read her monthly column in Family Circle in 1961. Her nature connection helped brighten many days for me! I have visited Cape Cod twice and searched for her house. I know I got close both times. Her books so wonderful! Thank you for having a website so special! |
| Name: | Shelley Rogers |
| E-mail address: | stillmeadow@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.geocities.com/stillmeadow/ |
| Comments: | This is an invitation for anyone who loves Gladys Taber to visit "Gladys Taber's Stillmeadow" - a site dedicated to Connecticut author, Gladys Taber. It is also a continuation of THIS site that was started by Susan Stanley (1953-2007). I hope that you'll come and visit. Shelley |
| Name: | Wanda |
| E-mail address: | billyboyandmissy@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | It is always relaxing to read about the affairs of country living, especially in earlier times. It is my wish that all people have a Stillmeadow place in their lives. It is a place the heart goes........ |
| Name: | Debbie Gassett |
| E-mail address: | debbielynn58@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I bought my first GraceTaber book at a water-damaged book sale in 1986,had never heard of her. it was Stillmeadow Sampler and I was only 27 years old raising 2 daughters on my own. i fell in love with this book and have read it several times. i am rereading the Stillmeadow Road for the 2nd time. Would love to connect with other Grace Taber fans. |
| Name: | Kathy Allen |
| E-mail address: | temp@mkalibraryspecialists.com |
| Comments: | A long time admirer of Gladys Taber. How nice to see others are ejoying her thoughts. |
| Name: | Kathy Allen |
| E-mail address: | temp@mkalibraryspecialists.com |
| Comments: | A long time admirer of Gladys Taber. How nice to see others are ejoying her thoughts. |
| Name: | susan welborn |
| E-mail address: | suewelborn@verizon.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://suewelborn@verizon.net |
| Comments: | Recently reading all of Gladys' books...takes me back to my lovely conn. where i lived too! |
| Name: | anne |
| E-mail address: | namfle51@epix.net |
| Comments: | A very long time admirer of Gladys. I have some of her books Corresponded with Gladys a little before she passed away. |
| Name: | Mona Marshall |
| E-mail address: | minnesotamona@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | How I wish I had visited you and your home back when I first knew of you. In your books I found a kindred spirit who lovd as I do the countryside, pets, gardens, seasons, and your beautiful old home. So glad to of found this site. |
| Name: | Linnea Mensching |
| E-mail address: | troll45@gmail.com |
| Comments: | I have loved Gladys Tabor since I was a teenager. I was happy to have visited Appleton and bought several Gladys Taber books at her favorite bookseller. |
| Name: | susan larson horner |
| E-mail address: | stillmeadow@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Interesting. I was told about this site by a gal I sold a coper tea kettle to on Ebay. She noticed my name and we figured out we were both fans. How cool. |
| Name: | John R. Eggers |
| E-mail address: | envision@paulbunyan.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.wowteach.com |
| Comments: | I am an avid fan of Gladys Taber. I have most of her books and enjoy the quietness and warmth of her writing. Thanks for taking the time to do a website dedicated to her. |
| Name: | Kathleen |
| E-mail address: | catty_girl_4@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hi, I love the way Gladys wrote and described things. I especially liked reading about Esme and tigger and her dogs. I like the way they packed up food to go on a picnic or maybe just sit outside and eat and enjoy the scenery and great outdoors. I have about 5 of her books and am now just reading them over. She sure had a way of writing and describing leaves, fires roaring, cooking whatever she was going to cook, even coddling eggs in the coddling cups. You can just imagine them enjoying them. It must have been very cold there in the wintertime the way she described it in her books. |
| Name: | Gaelyn |
| E-mail address: | bigbandbaby@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | If you have a chance, beg or borrow enough money to purchase a cope of "Harvest at Stillmeadow", Gladys' little-know earliest book about Stillmeadow. Her husband Bob and Jill were communting to New York and just coming to Stillmeadow on weekends when Gladys wrote this book. It is more honest about the aggravations of coutnry living then the later (but so wonderful) books. It will be a revelation to you and it reveals a lot about Gladys' personality! I know that is always very costly when it comes up for auction on Ebay or Amazon, but belive me, it is woth scrimping and saving for! |
| Name: | Jackie L. Bacher |
| E-mail address: | jblighthouse@verizon.net |
| Comments: | As a long-time lover of all things Gladys Taber, this site is amazing! Thank you! |
| Name: | Pat Trovinger |
| E-mail address: | dptrovinger |
| Comments: | As with so many of you, my Mother introduced me to Gladys Taber, and we read her books throughout the 60;s, 70's and mourned her loss in 1980. This morning I was reshelving some books and thought I ought to go back and reread them. When my Mother passed away, we had a lot of duplicates, so I combined them and offered the extras to a friend from Texas who was visiting. She jumped on the offer and flew home to Dallas with her suitcase full of books! When my son was small, and we lived in Westchester Co., N. Y., we used to travel frequently to New Britain to visit an old and dear friend, passing by Southbury. On an impulse one afternoon, I made the detour from I84 to Jeremy Swamp Rd. (which I had found several years earlier by noting "clues" from Stillmeadow books), and with my heart in my throat actually walked up Mrs. Taber's door, with my small son at my side. We were invited in, and spoke with her for a few minutes before continuing on our way home. What a thrill! Her beautiful books and wonderful outlook on life have served as an inspiration for me. |
| Name: | Brenda |
| E-mail address: | Ladyhawk517@aol.com |
| Comments: | My Grannie is the one that introduced me to Ms. Taber's talent. She collected all the Family Circle articles. Her writings make me feel part of her family. |
| Name: | Cait |
| E-mail address: | dragonflycait@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | While shelving books at our local library, I happened to shelve a book next to Stillmeadow Calendar. Needless to say, I checked it out, renewed it and finally had to give it back to the library, doggone it! I had read all the Butternut Wisdom columns she wrote in Family Circle when my Mom would buy the magazine. As I read Stillmeadow Calendar, I realized all those columns I devoured, really were the basis for my values and the way I feel about things. My Mother always read those columns too, and perhaps she adopted that wonderful 'wisdom' in raising me. I know we shared the same views on things, so perhaps the three of us were of like minds and souls. At 65, I am now re-discovering a whole world of her books and can't wait for the discovery of more of her books. I have been able to recently purchase two of her books with a third on the way here to my home. In reading even the cookbook I have garnered, I feel peace enter and my busy day dissolve. We are so lucky to be able to read these wonderful books and have had the opportunity to live our lives through osmosis through Gladys' words. I hope her daughter realizes the gift her mother's words have given me, and I Thank her for sharing Gladys with us. It is in the largesse of this generosity that we become whole again. Thank you. Cait |
| Name: | Myrna |
| E-mail address: | MLMTru@aol.com |
| Comments: | Back in the 60's, I was introduced to Gladys Taber's writings by way of her column "Butternut Wisdom" in Family Circle magazine. I fell in love with Stillmeadow. Since then I have collected almost all of her books and have read and reread them a number of times. Whenever things get hectic and I need some tranquil moments, all I have to do is open one of her books and walk down Jeremy Swamp Road. |
| Name: | sherry |
| E-mail address: | sds34881@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | I fell in love with Gladys Tabor books years ago and still enjoy reading them over and over. I also love this web site where I can come and just relax. |
| Name: | Karen Lowe |
| E-mail address: | kll.retired@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | My Mother, now 90, introduced me to Gladys Taber's books several years ago. Now I am reading aloud passages to her, as her eyesight is failing. We are both inspired by Ms. Taber's writings. |
| Name: | Winnie Rogers Smith |
| E-mail address: | winniesmith@frontiernet.net |
| Comments: | I did not know my grandfather well. He was very quiet and it has bothered me for years that I didn't know much about his personality. He gave my mother Stillmeadow, telling her it was a good book, 40 plus years ago and I have just now read it. It has given me an insight into his thinking I never could have gained otherwise. I love her wisdom and caring nature and am so glad I finally read this book. I am now on the search for her other books. |
| Name: | Aurore |
| E-mail address: | aurorebarrett@cox.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://thevicarofvegas.com |
| Comments: | I am fortunate in that I own and cherish almost every book that Gladys Taber ever wrote. I have been reading them since I was in my teens and she was the inspiration behind many of my own writings, plus my family cooking. I especially like the book about Amber, her cat - my favorite "Especially Dogs, Especially at Stillmeadow". It would be so much better today if we had writers of her bent who could help us learn to live the simple life. |
| Name: | Peg Ackerman <madisonatoutpost5@sbcglobal.net> |
| E-mail address: | madisonatoutpost5@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | I have run across quotes by Gladys Tabor in many of Susan Branch's books and have always wondered who she was! Now, the quest to find some of her books and indulge! |
| Name: | Linda Russell |
| E-mail address: | LndaluR@aol.com |
| Comments: | I started reading Gladys Taber books in the 1970s, happened upon them by accident at a dog show. They have touched my heart over the years in a way that is profound and I see by this website that I am far from alone. what a blessing she was, I reread her books often. |
| Name: | kim warnick |
| E-mail address: | kimfastback@yahoo.comI can't |
| Comments: | I can't remember when or where I "Stillmeadow Daybook", but something made me pick it up and thumb through it. I just knew that it was just what I needed at the time. I was in a band and on tour and it was the most perfect book for travelling all over the country. I really just wanted to fall into that book and live there especially considering just how opposite it was from what I was doing. On tour in a band can get really boring and exhausting so it was an escape from the boredom of waiting around to play. I remember going back to the van and reading but knowing that soon I would finish this book and then what???? It made me long to sit in front of a fireplace with a cat next to me, reading something cozy. I wish I would've been so lucky as to have met her as she seemed like such a wonderful, positive woman. But I'm glad she left us all her books. I plan owning all of them at some point. |
| Name: | Annie |
| E-mail address: | annie65934@aol.com |
| Comments: | I found gladys Stillmeadow while flying home from a florida trip. I was visiting my Father to relax and take time to myself. I was going through a horrible divorce, having been married for 25 years to my highschool sweetheart. Her book for some strange reason gave me hope, peace and strenght to go on with the rest of my life alone. I have now collected and read many of her books and love each one. I am lucky to live near by her beloved Stillmeadow in Southbury and found her home. It looks exactly the same as when she lived there and was thrilled to find it one warm summer day back in 1995. I wish there were some way to get inside and see where she lived and loved, but so far I have not been able to do that. I read her books every week over and over they give me inspiration for everyday living. |
| Name: | Kathryn Weishar |
| E-mail address: | tearosecottag@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I started reading Gladys Taber's books in 1967 shortly after I was married. I re-read them often, they are timeless. I wrote to her twice and she responded each time. I cherish her notes.I am happy there are others who love her as I do. |
| Name: | Kathy |
| E-mail address: | kath2357@aol.com |
| Comments: | My great-aunt loved Gladys Taber and gave her books to read. I fell in love with her writing!!! I felt as if I knew her -- like she was an old friend. When you read her books you long for that time when life seemed much simpler. She knew people and had a genuine love for her friends and family. What a joy it is to find this site and learn more about this great lady. Thank you for this site, Kathy |
| Name: | Ricki Teal |
| E-mail address: | theteals@juno.com |
| Comments: | What a beautiful site. I have admired Gladys Taber for over thirty years. She has to be my favorite author. This site is a wonderful tribute to her. Thank you |
| Name: | Br. Peter Budde, BSG |
| E-mail address: | stillmarsh@hotmail.com |
| Name: | Judy Clarke |
| E-mail address: | mothertough@aol.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://none |
| Comments: | I've always loved Gladys Taber. I am now writing an Afterword to my own second book and want to quote a few lines from her 'Harvest of Yesterdays.' Does anyone know how I can get in touch with whomever would give permission to quote? |
| Name: | Dorothy L. Kington |
| E-mail address: | d.l.kington2@cox.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://kington2.homestead.com |
| Comments: | A dear new friend introduced me to Gladys Tabor books. I regret that I had not come in contact with her books before now but I am on my second book and shall try to find more.I am almost 80 so it is my desire to devote many hours to reading the books of a woman who is from the same cloth as my friend and I. Thank you Mille for sharing your friend Gladys with me. |
| Name: | Kathy Taylor |
| E-mail address: | gardenlady39@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | A friend recently introduced me to Glady's books. I first read Stillmeadow Sampler and am now collecting and reading all of her books. She writes in such a way that I feel she wrote especially to me. I am so glad that I have found Gladys and wished that I could have spent time with her because I know we would have had lots to talk about. Kathy Lynn |
| Name: | Marlana Garrett |
| E-mail address: | marlanagarrett26@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I purchased Gladys Taber's "Especially Father" from a thrift store some time ago and just now read it. I love old books esp.from that era. I was trying to learn more about her parents when I came across your site. thank you for your wonderful web page. I have enjoyed it and am sure I will revisit. Sincerly, Marlana |
| Name: | carol |
| E-mail address: | carol@herbertson.com |
| Comments: | Love her books! |
| Name: | Gail Saunders |
| E-mail address: | gramgail@netscape.com |
| Comments: | I have loved Gladys Taber's books for many years. Now approaching 70, I am wondering if anybody has ever found or assembled a collection of her "Butternut Wisdom" articles published in the 50's and 60's, when I was a young wife and mother. How I loved them then, not knowing the later love for her books that would evolve. I am so pleased that there are still so many fans of her books, others who derive the same enjoyment and calming influence her writing has always invoked in me. |
| Name: | Donna & Theda Farris |
| E-mail address: | dkf5325@msn.com |
| Comments: | Our Mother had some of Gladys' books and binders full of her magazine articles. I believe Gladys was her favorite author. Mom passed away 4-1/2 yrs ago and we miss her terribly so we reminise by looking through her books and papers. We just discovered your website today and have been printing some of the calander pages. Gladys had such a beautiful way to describe her world that I've gotten lost in her words. Thanks for making her available to us. |
| Name: | rhonda bargery |
| E-mail address: | bargeryhrn@aol.com |
| Comments: | I looked up your website to get the list of books for my mother; she has been a long-time fan of Gladys Taber, and I have been helping her find the books on the internet to expand her collection. She is in her 70's now and not in the best of health; reading these books seems to give her such enjoyment. I plan to read them all some day when I have the time. Thank you for making the list. |
| Name: | cara dailey |
| E-mail address: | daileydc@juno.com |
| Comments: | Like another visitor, I didn't know others loved the Stillmeadow books as I do! Thanks for a beautifully done website. Cara Dailey in Oregon |
| Name: | Joan Cross |
| E-mail address: | jandj1@chartertn.net |
| Comments: | I have loved Gladys Taber since I first read her work in Family Circle as a teenager.I have as many of her books as I can find and constantly look for more.Just so happy to find your site! Thanks and keep up this great gift to the world! |
| Name: | Dawn Faith |
| E-mail address: | dawn-faith@myway.com |
| Comments: | I love Gladys Taber's books so much, and it always feels like reading lovely letters from a close friend. For those who are looking for books with a similar heart-felt, nature adoring feeling, I recommend books by Hal Borland (who was a good friend of Gladys), Rachel Peden, Tasha Tudor, and Susan Branch. I am so glad there are people born on this earth with invisible wings and a talent for writing! |
| Name: | susie |
| E-mail address: | siouxb2000@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Thanks for a beautiful site! Having long loved and cherished Gladys' writings, I am SO PLEASED to have discovered this beautiful site. |
| Name: | Cathy VanVoorhis |
| E-mail address: | cvanvoor@wccnet.edu |
| Comments: | Has anyone ever found out who "Jan" was and what happened to him after WWI? |
| Name: | Alicia Webster |
| E-mail address: | perspicaciouspetunia@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | I just discovered Ms.Taber's books at my local library two weeks ago, and I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love! Can anybody please recommend other authors that write in a similar vein? I am just beginning my journey into nature-related/biographical journals, and I am starving for suggestions...thanks |
| Name: | Carlie |
| E-mail address: | carlie@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://akron.batcave.net/omeprazole/ |
| Comments: | This is a good looking website, glad to see it. You may want to visit my page too: http://akron.batcave.net/omeprazole/ |
| Name: | Jan Bass |
| E-mail address: | riterjan@radiks.net |
| Comments: | Just dreamin' of the little grey house by the sea! It's not too late to register for our "Friends of Gladys Taber" 2006 reunion on Cape Cod. Dates are June 16-18. Home base will be the Captain's Quarters Inn in N. Eastham. Come join in the fun, fellowship and fresh seafood! Speakers, book sales, music, lobster, new friends and old, and all kinds of thrills! For more info, email me at riterjan@radiks.net or phone 712-328-6942. |
| Name: | Barbara |
| E-mail address: | barbsbeat@aol.com |
| Comments: | Would like to know if there is a book of the Family Circle Butternut Wisdom articles. |
| Name: | Pat |
| E-mail address: | ptcargill@aol.com |
| Comments: | I am reading my first Taber book, co-authored w/Barbara (sorry, can't remember her last name and book not available!) Stillwater and Sugarbridge. Their correspondence following the seasons of the year is just such delightful reading. I read sparingly as I want this book to last a long time. It was a gift from my best friend who read her books long ago. I notice websites regarding her mentioned, but would appreciate knowing the names. Thanks in advance. I sign myself, New Glady Taber book collector. |
| Name: | nancy |
| E-mail address: | featherwon |
| Name: | linda norwood |
| E-mail address: | lindabnorwood@gmail.com |
| Comments: | I just finished reading "he Stillmeadow Road" this is the first Gladys Tabor book I have read. I really enjoyed this book. It was such a relaxing book to read. I look forward to reading more of her books. |
| Name: | Sharon Brillinger |
| E-mail address: | saelborn@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I had no idea there were so many other people who still read and loved the works of Gladys Taber. I have been enjoying her work for 40 years, and look in every used bookstore I come across for her books. Isn't it amazing that one woman can influence so many people by writing about her life and her beliefs. She seems like a breath of fresh air when compared to contemporary writers. Love and prayers to all who love and collect Gladys Taber books. Sharon |
| Name: | dale platenik |
| E-mail address: | ashanta111@aol.com |
| Comments: | gladys tabor gives me hope, comfort, and strength to get through some of the most difficult times of my life. she also makes me laugh and enjoy the everyday humdrums of housework, out-of-the-house work, and daily living. i love gladys and am so glad i found her a few years ago. i now own most of her books thanks to a used book dealer who is a very good friend. i just wish i had come to know gladys before she died, so i could have written to her and let her know how important she has become to me. |
| Name: | tami |
| E-mail address: | middlekid46@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | what a wonderful site! just happened on it tonight while searching for pictures of stillmeadow. my mom has been buying me a gladys taber book for christmas every year for so many years and sadly this year we can't find one that i don't have! i treasure my books and have a special place for them! after reading my first one, i just had to have a cocker spaniel and have had one ever since! will return often to this site and have added it to my favorites. thank you for such a beautiful place to visit!!! |
| Name: | Sharon Simpson |
| E-mail address: | cameo602003@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I fell in love with Stillmeadow and Gladys Taber's books and "Butternut Wisdom" column a long time ago and thought sadly that it was a dream lost when she passed away. Recently widowed after a 40-year marriage, I found the house that is truly my heart's home a year ago, purchased it the day after I first saw it and have been happily living in its shelter since. Today I came across these websites devoted to preserving her peaceful kingdom, including many photos of Stillmeadow. I could be looking at the twin of my home, also an antique Cape Cod, built, we think, in the 1790's within shouting distance of the Connecticut shoreline. Although I had seen photos in her books, first read in our town library 35 years ago, I had only a hazy memory of that delightful home. Now I know why my own piece of Heaven on earth spoke to me so strongly. How comforting to know that there are others who feel as deeply about her vision of the world as I and that we can make a difference in the often frantic hustle that life has become. I feel like I have come to a well of sweet cool water in the middle of a long dusty journey. Now I am going to hie myself out and order the copies of her books to go with "Stillmeadow Seasons" and "Stillmeadow Road" that have graced my bookshelves for these many years. Thank you for this opportunity to connect with like-minded souls! |
| Name: | Melissa Gajewski |
| E-mail address: | mgajewski@ssd.com |
| Comments: | A friend of mine and I are becoming great Gladys Taber fans. I think her books are better than any self-help book that is out today. We read her books and feel that all is right with the world. We are both curious, however, as to what happened to both her and Jill's husbands and Jill's children. Its driving us crazy that we cannot find mention of what happened to them in any of her books. I would really appreciate hearing something from you. Thank you so much! Melissa |
| Name: | Annie |
| E-mail address: | annesc@cox.net |
| Comments: | Hello newly found kindred spirits... I was reading Katherine Valentine's latest novel and one of her main character's was reading a Glady's Taber book. So that's what got me started. I am starting up now and planning to read all her books and have had the library order them all. I am so glad to read the 'grounds' have been preserved. It is hard to find 'comfort' reading and this is one. |
| Name: | Irene |
| E-mail address: | chizim2@pacific.net.au |
| Comments: | "Amber - a very personal Cat" has been my introduction to Gladys Taber's writing. I don't even have a cat but loved every word. I'm looking forward to reading many more of these delighteful books. |
| Name: | Carol Stauter |
| E-mail address: | hjohn@coiinc.com |
| Comments: | Is it true that Gilly's gone? If so,I hope someone will pick up the mantle and continue to publish the newsletter. It was always such a pleasure to find one in the mail.....a tangible link to Gladys. Gilly was a wonderful, devoted friend of Gladys who will be sorely missed. |
| Name: | Carol Stauter |
| E-mail address: | hjohn@coiinc.com |
| Comments: | Is it true that Gilly's gone? If so,I hope someone will pick up the mantle and continue to publish the newsletter. It was always such a pleasure to find one in the mail.....a tangible link to Gladys. Gilly was a wonderful, devoted friend of Gladys that will be sorely missed. |
| Name: | Lori |
| E-mail address: | lorilynne1965@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I'm currently reading Country Chronicle. This is the first book I've read by Gladys Taber and definately won't be the last. It doesn't take long to fall in love with her and her way of writing. Just wanted to say thank you for this website so we can learn more about this inspiring woman. |
| Name: | Chris |
| E-mail address: | cokinos@comcast.net |
| Comments: | Discovered Gladys on the library shelf. I first enjoyed Still Cove Journal and continued to read the rest. I did belong to the Gilley Moore club but have lost contact. I understand she passed away. Would love to hear more about the fans of G.T. |
| Name: | Rica |
| E-mail address: | bollin77@juno.com |
| Comments: | would someone please tell me what happened to Jill's two children and when did Jills husband die and when did Gladys's husband die? they don't have to reveal sensitive information....... |
| Name: | rica |
| Comments: | Zucchini Jam Serves: 6 Ingredients: 6 cup zucchini; peeled & grated 1/4 cup water 1 pkg sure-jell 5 cup sugar 13 oz pineapple; crushed 6 oz apricot Jello Boil the zucchini and water until soft. Add Sure-Jell and bring to a hard boil. Add sugar and pineapple. Boil 5 minutes. Remove form heat. Add apricot Jello. Stir well. Pack in sterilized jars and seal. I use the Sure-Jell Light and use only 3 1/2 cups sugar. This is an orange colored jam and really tastes great...unless you don't like apricots or pineapple! |
| Name: | Rica |
| E-mail address: | Bollin77@juno.com |
| Comments: | what beautiful poetry Lois wrote for memory of the Taber books!!thank you Lois... |
| Name: | Lillian Perry Hendricks |
| E-mail address: | pshendricks@houston.rr.com |
| Comments: | Gladys has been my favorite author for many, many years. I appreciate her storis, thoughts, and style of writing. She has been an inspiration throughout my life. I would appreciate any current information about friends of Gladys reunions and meetings. I hope to sometime soon visit Stillmeadow where all her creative writings were born. |
| Name: | Linda Hagan |
| E-mail address: | ljhagan@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | Iremember and still enjoy thoughts from Butternut Wisdom/McCalls circa late 50's. Want to get a compilation of those articles if possible. Her writing about her cats was a particular joy. |
| Name: | Linda |
| Name: | Linda |
| Name: | Gina Barath |
| E-mail address: | SHANUKPA@AOL.com |
| Comments: | I would be interested in learning more about the Friends of Gladys Taber organization. I am finally living in Orleans MA. I am sure you are aware of the fact that Still Cove is on the market. Are there any plans about aimed at possibly preserving it. I attended an historic commission session the other day and the structure was declared significant but they didn't go into any thoughts of a possible purchase in order to preserve it in tact. Could it possibly serve as a writers retreat center for this area? (just a suggestion) Any info you could send would be greatly appreciated. |
| Name: | Faye |
| E-mail address: | Aschbacher |
| Comments: | I have been reading Gladys Taber books for several years and have learned to love her she is so down to earth and warm. I have several of her books and am trying to get all of them. I found several on Amazon. Is Connie still alive and was she ever called Cicely? Happy reading. Faye |
| Name: | Faye |
| Name: | Faye |
| Name: | Kathi |
| Comments: | Stillmeadow still exists, and is on Sanford Road, just off Jeremy Swamp Road, just southeast of Southbury, Connecticut. Easy to Mapquest, if you want to see just where! |
| Name: | Phyllis Bradley |
| E-mail address: | mommab12@access995.com |
| Comments: | Does Stillmeadow still exist? Where is it exactly? Thank you, Phyllis Bradley |
| Name: | Dusty |
| Comments: | Enjoyed what I could see of the site so far! 8^) I am a big Gladys Taber fan myself! But what happened to page 2??? Doesn't seem to want to download for me! Hope you get it fixed soon! Thanks for the great tribute site to one of my favorite local authors! Dusty from MA |
| Name: | Chris Merton |
| E-mail address: | ccmerton1@verizon.net |
| Comments: | 15 years ago, I intended to "sign up" for the newsletter written by Gilly Moore for the "Friends of Gladys Taber". As things go, I never did. On a whim, tonight I discovered this web site and I am so delighted! Gladys Taber lives! Gilly, if you are reading this, I still have the kind letter you wrote to me when I inquired about the "Friends" many years ago! After all these years.... thank you! |
| Name: | Sandra Stanley |
| E-mail address: | swstanley@ec.rr.com |
| Comments: | My father introduced me to Gladys Taber's writings when I was but a child. She is now my favorite author just as she was my father's, and I own quite a collection of her wonderful books purchased from numerous sources. I am very interested in obtaining more of her works and those of her daughter. Anything I can here about her and her gifted writings would be indeed greatly appreciated. Sincerely yours, Sandra Stanley: swstanley@ec.rr.com |
| Name: | CAROLYN RIDER |
| E-mail address: | GRANDPA 1063 |
| Name: | Susan Stanley |
| E-mail address: | stillmeadow@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://stillmeadow.ecwhost.com |
| Comments: | Hi everyone UPDATE: The site is being moved, re-designed and updated. Here's the new URL: http://stillmeadow.ecwhost.com/ There is also a very pleasant forum here: http://stillmeadow.forumate.com/ Please register to join in!! This guestbook will be moved to the new site eventually, and will always be safe :) Kind regards, Susan Kind regards |
| Name: | KATHIE DEVALL |
| E-mail address: | kedevall@utmb.edu |
| Comments: | I JUST STARTED READING GLADYS TABOR AND I LOVE HER. I ENJOY YOUR WEBSITE. THANKS, KATHIE |
| Name: | KATHIE DEVALL |
| E-mail address: | kedevall@utmb.edu |
| Comments: | I JUST STARTED READING GLADYS TABOR AND I LOVE HER. I ENJOY YOUR WEBSITE. THANKS, KATHIE |
| Name: | Kim |
| E-mail address: | goofyblonde@direcway.com |
| Comments: | Looking to purchase Gladys Taber Books! |
| Name: | Roberta May |
| E-mail address: | mayroberta@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.honeychild.com |
| Comments: | Lovely. I'm just re-reading her biographies and cookbooks. |
| Name: | Kim Covell |
| E-mail address: | goofyblonde@direcway.com |
| Name: | Dolores |
| E-mail address: | Mistyroses47@aol.com |
| Comments: | My Mother got me interested in Gladys Taber's books some years ago. We eventually made around 3 trips to Connecticut, to try and find Stillmeadow. On our second trip there, we found the house and got permission to walk around in the yard. Got some pictures. On our next visit there, we drove by the house and saw a lady outside in the yard. We stopped and my Mother got out and went over to talk with her. It was Connie, Gladys' daughter. She invited us in to walk thru the first floor. It was a wonderful time, seeing inside the house that Gladys loved and wrote about in her books. We also found the cemetery where Gladys was buried, and also her friend Jill's grave. It was a day that meant so much to my Mother. It was also our last visit there together. My Mother had a stroke 3 months later. That was in 1998. In Dec. of 2003, just 3 days before Christmas, my Mom passed away. I will treasure all of our memories of being able to let Mom see the house that she read about in the books, knowing that it meant so much to her! I wish we could have met Gladys for she seemed like such a special person. I would love to have all of the books that she wrote, but they are difficult to find. I'm glad for this website. Thanks! |
| Name: | Dolores |
| E-mail address: | Mistyroses47@aol.com |
| Comments: | My Mother got me interested in Gladys Taber's books some years ago. We eventually made around 3 trips to Connecticut, to try and find Stillmeadow. On our second trip there, we found the house and got permission to walk around in the yard. Got some pictures. On our next visit there, we drove by the house and saw a lady outside in the yard. We stopped and my Mother got out and went over to talk with her. It was Connie, Gladys' daughter. She invited us in to walk thru the first floor. It was a wonderful time, seeing inside the house that Gladys loved and wrote about in her books. We also found the cemetery where Gladys was buried, and also her friend Jill's grave. It was a day that meant so much to my Mother. It was also our last visit there together. My Mother had a stroke 3 months later. That was in 1998. In Dec. of 2003, just 3 days before Christmas, my Mom passed away. I will treasure all of our memories of being able to let Mom see the house that she read about in the books, knowing that it meant so much to her! I wish we could have met Gladys for she seemed like such a special person. I would love to have all of the books that she wrote, but they are difficult to find. I'm glad for this website. Thanks! |
| Name: | Mary Ellen McMullen |
| E-mail address: | maryellen0611@aol.com |
| Comments: | Always and ever Gladys has been a part of my life. My mother was a librarian and introduced me to the Stillmeadow books when I was in high school. In the late 1970's my sister and I drove to Stillmeadow and bravely walked around the farmhouse and peeked into the windows, one splendid, October morning. What a thrill! I passed along one of my Stillmeadow books to my daughter, Mary Jane, a midwife, who is now living in Virginia. She and her husband purchased a property in the countryside and are converting it into a farm which they have named "Steel Meadow Farm", because my son-in-law, Glenn, is an artist/sculptor who works in steel medium. Over the years, I have read Gladys' journals over and over and they always bring me enormous comfort. |
| Name: | Mary Beth Schwarz |
| E-mail address: | beschwarz@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | This is a lovely website. You have added so many things! My collection of Gladys Taber's books is growing, and I enjoy reading about the peace and joy she had in the country. ANOTHER PATH helped me through grief. I am looking forward to the Friends of Gladys Taber newsletter this month if Gilbertine is feeling well. So far I have not been able to go to a Friends gathering, but some year I will go and meet some of you dear friends and learn more about Gladys and Stillmeadow/StillCove. |
| Name: | Kathi Patty |
| Comments: | I stumbled onto your website after reading Ms. Taber's Especially Dogs, and was interested in finding out more about her. It is truly a pleasure to find such a moving tribute. I will be sure to find more of her books and will enjoy this website as I have added it to my Favorites. Thank You. |
| Name: | Susan Stanley |
| E-mail address: | susanstanlley@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://stillmeadow.ecwhost.com |
| Comments: | Dear Gladys Taber fans, To all of you who had given up on me, I'm back. These past few years have been really hard for me. My parents health declined and I spent a lot of time flying back and to to North Wales, helping to take care of them. Then they died within a year of one another. People handle loss in different ways, some reach out for others to help them through the pain. Some just gather themselves up and go on, but some simply put their head under their wing and withdraw from things they love doing best. This is what happened to me. I felt so sad and lonely. I missed them so much and the things that gave me joy no longer seemed to matter any more. However, my deep love and appreciation for Gladys Taber and her books never dimmed, it was just put on the back-burner. Indeed, it was Gladys's quiet wisdom and sensibilty that brought me through many a dark time. I lost my father Jan 25 2002 and my mother Feb 6 2003. This year, on the anniversaries of their passing, instead of being sorrowful, I am doing what they would surely want me to do and that is to celebrate their lives and get back into living my own life. So, I'm back! I'm re-designing the site and have opened a journal to keep you up-to-date on it's developement. My good friend Shelley will be posting there too. (http://stillmeadow.ecwhost.com) Take care all and please accept my apologies. Susan Stanley |
| Name: | Lisa Trump |
| E-mail address: | fourtrumps@ccrtc.com |
| Comments: | By the way, I also wanted to say...if you like Gladys Taber's Stillmeadow books, you might also try to hunt down copies of Rachel Mason Peden's "Speak to the Earth," "The Land, the People" and "Rural Free: A Farmwife's Almanac of Country Living." They are very similar in style to the Stillmeadow books, but set in a different part of the country, of course. Like Taber, Peden also wrote articles of the same nature for magazines and newspapers, and was a true environmentalist at heart. Had they known each other, Rachel and Gladys would've been great friends. |
| Name: | Lisa Trump |
| E-mail address: | fourtrumps@ccrtc.com |
| Comments: | Some of my favorite books have always been the farmwife journals of Rachel Peden, from my home state of Indiana. I found the Stillmeadow books because they happened to be shelved right next to Peden's books at my local public library. Now I have a new favorite, and have read every one of them. What an amazing woman... |
| Name: | Lorri Matey |
| E-mail address: | lorrimatey@gmail.com |
| Comments: | I was so glad to find this website. My mother and I found our first Gladys Taber book about 20 years ago at a library sale. I was then 18 and have since collected and read so many of her books. They have meant so much to me as I've read and re-read them over the years. It's good to know that there are so many others that feel the same way. |
| Name: | Marsha McGinnis |
| E-mail address: | mcginnis47@msn.com |
| Comments: | I am amazed at how many of us "50 somethings" are fans of Gladys Taber. I started reading her colum in Family Circle magazine when I was in High School. I remember reading one of her articles on a night when I couldn't sleep . . . three months after my father died and just one month before I was to be married . . . at the ripe old age of 18 when the Viet Nam war was in full swing. My fiancee had just received his draft notice two weeks after he enlisted in the Navy - and wanted to get married NOW! Three years and two sons later, I ordered "Conversations With Amber" from a book club list, and discovered how calming Glady's words were to a young harried mother. And from then on I ordered and tracked down everything she had in print at that time. It was then that I started keeping a journal. And now, more than 35 years later, I just picked up an old copy of "The Stillmeadow Road". It's effect is still the same as it was all those years ago. At 57, my four sons are all grown men.We have been through periods of unemployment, bankruptcy, lost our home, and I am now dealing with a muscle condition that causes constant chronic pain. I have tried not to become bitter and angry, but find it is becoming a loosing battle. Finding this loved and cherished copy of one of many of my GT books - the only books I have kept for all these years - has brought me back to a time when there was hope and light in my life. I cried when I started reading all the emails. And I truely believe that this is a definite turning point. Reading about Gladys and her life at Stillmeadow and Stillcove once again has but a smile on my face and softened my heart. Thank you for this website and love to all of you who have let Gladys become a part of your life, just I have done. What a blessing she has become to so many of us. |
| Name: | Mary Hall |
| E-mail address: | merry.hall@comcast.net |
| Comments: | So glad to have found this website. I am struck that so many who have signed the guestbook either live in close enough proximity to drive by Stillmeadow or else have visited the area. I would love to see photos of Stillmeadow as it looks today, as well as photos of Jeremy Swamp Road, the town, etc. If anyone could post such pictures at your site, I'm sure I'm not the only one who would enjoy them. Thanks for all your work to establish this site. mch |
| Name: | Cathleen Lindell |
| E-mail address: | lindell@c-zone.net |
| Comments: | I live on a farm in Northern Ca and have benn collecting and reading Gladys Taber books since 1985. I am confused about the relationship between Gladys and Jill. In "The Book Of Stillmeadow", Gladys states when they bought the house the family consisted of her husband, daughter and her sister Jill and her two children. In the book, "The Stillmeadow Road", Gladys writes about Jill's incurable optimisum and knowing her since they were both 14 years old. Can anyone help me out? |
| Name: | Doris Moore |
| E-mail address: | webbmoore@peoplepc.com |
| Comments: | Hi everyone, It's been more than three years since I have posted a message. I have a lot of Gladys Taber books for sell. Interested? Send me an e-mail. Doris |
| Name: | Kathy Anderson |
| E-mail address: | charles.w.anderson@gte.net |
| Comments: | Are there any Gladys Taber readers in Washington State? I have been reading her books since the late seventies. My collection has all of the Stillmeadow books. Finding them all was alot of fun...Please e-mail me if anyone lives in my area. I'm in Burlington, Wa. across the Skagit River from Mt. Vernon, and about 60 miles north of Seattle. Hope to hear from someone;;Kathy |
| Name: | Janice T. Russell |
| E-mail address: | janicetrussell@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I fell in love with Gladys Taber's writings from the first moment I read "April in New England is like first love." Her prose is like poetry, and I love reading it. She has brightened many a dark day. I am thankful that Stillmeadow is still occupied, and especially that it remains Stillmeadow. |
| Name: | Valerie Oram |
| E-mail address: | valerieandearl@eastlink.ca |
| Comments: | Thankyou so very much for your wonderful collection of peace, kindness and tranquility. I have forgotten exactly how I came across your web site, but when I found it, I knew that this was something that I wanted to keep. It now has a place in my "favourites". I haven't been able to read it all right now. I keep "popping" back to it when I need something lovely in my life. I am a senior citizen, and sometimes life can be a little lonely. Thankyou, again, mu dear. Mery Christmas, and a Happy New Year to you and to all your loved ones. (The date is Dec. 7, 2004) |
| Name: | Noreen |
| E-mail address: | schulte4@bcinternet.net |
| Comments: | Just discovered Gladys Taber in the Stillmeadow Sampler that I picked up from the local library's discard pile - what a treasure! A most comfortable book ... a keeper! I will read it again and again. |
| Name: | Lynne |
| E-mail address: | lynnevan@yorku.ca |
| Comments: | What a wonderful tribute to Gladys! I remember reading her magazine articles years ago, and missing them so much when they were no longer available. I am going to enjoy reading (again) Christmas at Stillmeadow, probably my all-time favourite. Thanks so much for this site. |